Saturday, November 29, 2003

.net

A good summary of the usual pitfalls you run into when using the datatgrid. Web Controls: Common Datagrid Mistakes (ASP.NET Technical Articles)

posted by Christopher @ 4:53 PM

Friday, November 28, 2003

ACM Queue - Content

I was messing around with a web service to send Yahoo IM messages yesterday. Could be useful.

Johan passed on this link ACM Queue. Some interesting thoughts on IM, availability and work/location problems.

posted by Christopher @ 9:50 PM

Thursday, November 27, 2003

SQL Server Wisdom

help.net a few helpful articles about sql server dynamic sql. For reference more than anything else.

posted by Christopher @ 7:21 AM

Does the internet dream when it sleeps?

Watching the Net's background radiation analyzes the statistics of the ip traffic to an inactive node. It's not to far a stretch from therer to the big 'what if'. What if the internet was slowely trying to organize itself? While not conceivable currently, it'd make a good short story.

posted by Christopher @ 7:16 AM

Wednesday, November 26, 2003

KM

via Column Two, Christopher Johnson gives us this Site Map of communities of practice. Nice perspective.

posted by Christopher @ 6:24 AM

.net

Five ASP.NET Controls You Might Be Craving Dino Esposito once again. This guy continually puts out info that is immediately useful. Worth a look.

posted by Christopher @ 6:20 AM

Wednesday, November 19, 2003

Testing

Microsoft Factory tour some very interesting insight into the processes that MS has in place. This link is for the next programmer who fails to test a departmental application adequately.

posted by Christopher @ 12:52 PM

Creating Dynamic ASP.NET Server Controls Using XML

Creating Dynamic ASP.NET Server Controls Using XML This is a good jumping off point for quite a few applications.

posted by Christopher @ 9:52 AM

Cat fight: Stored Procedures vs. Dynamic SQL

This is hysterical: Frans, Rob, More Rob, Frans again and many others. My takes, it's gray area, there are reasons to use both and there are a lot of factors that should be considered in making your decision, probably more than could fit in your average blog entry.

posted by Christopher @ 9:50 AM

Sunday, November 16, 2003

Movies

"You have no power here. Be gone before somebody drops a house on you!" Oh snap! Have you ever felt like saying that to someone?

posted by Christopher @ 10:52 PM

Friday, November 14, 2003

New Aggro

Discovered Bloglines.com today. Way cool. I'd been using 'News is Free.com' but I'm getting kind of sick of the pop unders.

posted by Christopher @ 8:22 PM

Tuesday, November 11, 2003

How secret is it? It is so secret....

Last week I emailed Microsoft requesting access to Wallop. This is the response I received:
************
Hello and thank you for contacting us at Microsoft.com regarding your concern about http://mywallop.com/. Unfortunately, your comments are directed at another company’s service or product, so we are unable to help you. Please correspond directly with the appropriate company for help with your issue.

Thanks.

Sincerely,
[some guys name ]
Microsoft.com Customer Support

Did we resolve your issue?
If so, please take a moment to tell us how we've done at: http://www2.survey-poll.com/email/1621mt_microsoft.html .
If not, please reply to this e-mail and let us know how we can assist you further. Thank you!

***************

Information about Wallop is starting to get out. I'm curious.

posted by Christopher @ 10:54 AM

Sunday, November 09, 2003

.NET Blog cosmic awareness

This is one of the cool things about reading the blogs of other technicians. On Wednesday last week I had to solve the problem of how to re-set page titles in asp.net. It wasn't obvious so I filed it away under 'I'll come back to that'. Ashutosh gives me the answer here....
Thanks!

posted by Christopher @ 9:03 AM

Friday, November 07, 2003

Reading

I'm finally getting down to reviewing Microsoft's design pattern documentation posted on MSDN. From the topic menu, they look pretty good. More views as I dig in....

posted by Christopher @ 4:21 PM

Tuesday, November 04, 2003

.net Starter Kit Fix

Did some work to fix the way my community site reads version 1.0 rss feeds. Posted the response on the message board.

posted by Christopher @ 6:50 AM

Monday, November 03, 2003

.net code we love...

Handle the <enter> key on a form. Should be easy right? I found the easy answer here: Unveiled: How to Create a Default 'Enter' Button! This is one of those little code snippets you can pull your hair out trying to find. And no help file nor book I've come across actually gives reference to it. So, surely it can't be that important?

Thanks Karl!


posted by Christopher @ 4:57 PM

Saturday, November 01, 2003

.net Architecture

I've been re-vamped my personal site. I've implemented MS's .net community starter kit. Discussion, comments, latest content, ratings, alerts, user management, rss handling, all out of the box. Implementation was somewhat tricky on brinkster, but I'm actually pretty happy with the results.

posted by Christopher @ 11:06 AM

New York

Lou has been kicking ass with the coolpix. Check out his site! I particularly like this one.

posted by Christopher @ 10:57 AM